Conclusion & Resources

There are many Python tools for RSS, and we don't have space to cover
them all. Aaron Swartz's page of RSS tools is a good place to start
looking if you want to explore other modules out there. RSS is easy to
work with in Python, because of all the great modules available for it.
The modules hide all the chaos brought about by the history and
popularity of RSS. If your XML services needs mostly involve the
exchange of descriptive information for Web sites, we highly recommend
using the most successful XML service technology in employment.

Next month, we will explain how to use e-mail packages for Python for writing Web services over SMTP.

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